Keeping slugs off hostas

Hostas

10:22am Saturday 25th May 2013

GINA PARKINSON is out early to keep those slugs off her hostas.

Euphorbia time

Euphorbia

11:55am Saturday 18th May 2013

You can’t keep a good euphorbia down, finds GINA PARKINSON.

Garden fires up at last

Primula and pulmonaria

12:11pm Saturday 11th May 2013

GINA PARKINSON just loves the cottage garden combination of two common plants, native primrose and pulmonaria

Hello, blossom

Amelanchier blossom

11:00am Saturday 4th May 2013

GINA PARKINSON sets to work but also takes time to enjoy her favourite spring tree.

Cash prize offered for growing a record breaking pumpkin

York farmer Tom Pearcy with a giant fibreglass pumpkin and the £2,000 prize money

9:30am Monday 29th April 2013

Spring may have been delayed this year but if you want a shot a claiming a £2,000 cash prize for pumpkin growing you better get planting.

When size isn’t everything

Dwarf iris

2:20pm Saturday 27th April 2013

They may be only inches tall, but you can’t measure dwarf iris by size alone, says GINA PARKINSON

Harrogate Spring Flower Show preview

Lorraine Hart of Hart's lily specialists is surrounded by blooms

9:13am Thursday 25th April 2013

After months of gloom a riot of colour promises to brighten up the next few days at the Harrogate Spring Flower Show. MATT CLARK previews this year’s attractions.

Well spotted...

Pulmonaria

10:58am Saturday 20th April 2013

GINA PARKINSON spots the late arrival of the first butterflies and welcomes the flowering of the pulmonarias.

Daffodils arrive at last

Daffodils in Gina's garden

2:04pm Saturday 13th April 2013

GINA PARKINSON marvels that she has got to April without mention of daffodils, but puts that right after a sunny weekend in the garden

A plum choice

Cherry plum tree blossom

9:39am Saturday 6th April 2013

There is still a chill in the air, but spring is waiting to come in, finds GINA PARKINSON.

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